I am trying to find the name of an Anime I can vaguely remember watching in my younger days. I don't remember too much of the plot, but it centred around a kid who kept getting scars after some ancestor or ghost of power etc gave them to him. There was an "evil guy" in it who was trying to get this power for himself. I know the plot was really weird, and it was almost more of a history lesson (there was always a voice over about clan X person Y fighting this guy and that guy who was the son of someone blah blah).

Sorry if this is a massively naff description but its all I can really remember of it!

Does anyone have any idea at all what I am talking about?

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I dont think it was a series, just a movie or a feature length thing. I watched it at some point early/mid 90s on the Sci Fi channel. Setting was modern but with fantasy elements (like ghosts/spirits, magic, but presented in a "well its always been around but everyone forgot about all this mystic stuff" type affair).

Like I said the main thing that sticks out was the fact that there was a lot of narritive explaining history (one of those animes that has a massive backstory and crams it into an hour, so there was a lot of "and this is because ..." "and this guy did this in the past..." etc). Some guy was trying to sieze ultimate power by doing certain tasks and by doing it you'd recieve scars, but legends fortold of a child to save everyone or something along them lines and this kid kept getting the scars instead then became all powerful by the end when he had them all.

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To endanger the soul endangers all, when the soul is endangered it must become a Warrior.

After a bit of searching through scar related tropes on TVTropes, nothing. However, a bit of googling leads me to this link. It has a list of anime Sci-Fi has broadcasted(though the list may not be complete), so you can look up those and see if any are what you're looking for.

Good shout, but I couldn't find it in the list. It wasn't "historical" per-se, it was set in modern-ish times and the narrator would talk alot about backstory (probably more so than the characters ever spoke). I dont think the backstory of old clans and things was historically accurate. Maybe it was based on real events but it was largely fantasy stuff I think.

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To endanger the soul endangers all, when the soul is endangered it must become a Warrior.

No joy. This anime was not very well animated and the storyline was rather poor infact. Over all it was a, well, very crappy anime! I am wanting to find it for nostalgia sake. It was deffinately not something you'd watch and think "wow that was awesome, I wish I'd seen it sooner!"

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To endanger the soul endangers all, when the soul is endangered it must become a Warrior.